What would happen if Apple decides to make a service like Tivo’s recently announced remote video and picture sharing service available to .Mac subscribers via AppleTV? There is already photocasting via .Mac accounts. So maybe videosharing is already available somehow? Seems like there could be a pay-per-view scheme in there somewhere for video podcasters.
TiVo has just announced a new service that will allow users to route video content directly to other people’s Now Playing lists. [T]he unnamed feature lets anyone with a PC and broadband connection upload vids or photos to a special site, where they are then sent to a specified list of subscribers…Unlike YouTube or Google Video, the uploaded content is strictly controlled and not open to the public….
So wouldn’t it be neat if, in a future iteration, AppleTV not only received video but also sent it? Your television room could become a broadcast studio as well as theater.
That would be neat, but they’d better start making them with bigger hard drives. Especially if spammers find a way to use this before we can train the squid to eat them.
Glenn: Agreed. I am just thinking of the AppleTV as a gateway to bigger things (I hope). They would also need to boost the storage available to .Mac and refurbish that whole service. Still, we can imagine…